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Aulacaspis artocarpi Takagi, 2012 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis artocarpi Takagi 2012a: 56. Type data: MALAYSIA; Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Kepong, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, on Artocarpus elasticus, 11/1/1986, by S. Takagi.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to Aulacaspis mahangena, A. canarii and A. canariicola in body shape, in lacking macroducts and gland spines always or frequently on the later lobes of the second abdominal segment, and in having very few dorsal macroducts. It is easily distinguishable from these three in the median trullae emall, being only a little larger than the lobules of the lateral trullae, and, in this respect, it may not be closely related to any of them. (Takagi, 2012a)
Structure: Female tests small, oblong, irregular in outline; male tests tricarinate. Adult female body nearly fusiform, with meso- and metathorax tending to be irregularly expanded laterally at full growth. Interantennal tubercle well represented, often accompanied with interantennal derm pockets. Anterior spiracles each with a small cluster of disc pores; posterior spiracles with no disc pores. Abdominal segment II with no macroducts and no gland spines on lateral lobe. (Takagi, 2012a)
Biology: Females and males on the upper and lower surfaces of leaves. (Takagi, 2012a)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2012a.

Takagi2012a: biology, description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 56-57, 110